Jenna Mead
Biographic Data
| ID | 640672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenna Mead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenna |
| FAMILY NAME | Mead |
| SIGNATURE | MEAD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Univcrsity of Tasmania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy
This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany's important and influential\n"Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text" (1996). Delany's\nargument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions\nin liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical\npoetic fi gure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of\nGeoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer's acceptance of th…
Reading By Said's Lantern
This paper takes Edward Said's foundational critique of western discourses of knowledge about the orient as a way of intervening in the tradition of reading Chaucer's only scientific text, The Treatise on the Astrolabe. I argue for recognizing the "color" of Chaucer's originary text of "Messahala, an Arabian astronomer, by religion a Jew", and against naturalizing the Treatise as an "unmarked white" text. My argument is that there are cultural an…
Missing bodies
Producing culture
Biodiscourse
Caroline Leakey
(1993). Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 8, FEMINIST BIOGRAPHY, pp. 198-216
Reading By Said's Lantern
This paper takes Edward Said's foundational critique of western discourses of knowledge about the orient as a way of intervening in the tradition of reading Chaucer's only scientific text, The Treatise on the Astrolabe. I argue for recognizing the "color" of Chaucer's originary text of "Messahala, an Arabian astronomer, by religion a Jew", and against naturalizing the Treatise as an "unmarked white" text. My argument is that there are cultural an…
Missing bodies
Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy
This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany's important and influential\n"Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text" (1996). Delany's\nargument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions\nin liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical\npoetic fi gure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of\nGeoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer's acceptance of th…
Caroline Leakey
(1993). Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 8, FEMINIST BIOGRAPHY, pp. 198-216
Biodiscourse
Producing culture
Missing bodies
Reading By Said's Lantern
This paper takes Edward Said's foundational critique of western discourses of knowledge about the orient as a way of intervening in the tradition of reading Chaucer's only scientific text, The Treatise on the Astrolabe. I argue for recognizing the "color" of Chaucer's originary text of "Messahala, an Arabian astronomer, by religion a Jew", and against naturalizing the Treatise as an "unmarked white" text. My argument is that there are cultural an…
Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy
This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany's important and influential\n"Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text" (1996). Delany's\nargument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions\nin liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical\npoetic fi gure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of\nGeoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer's acceptance of th…
History (5 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)